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–noun

1.	the act of appropriating.

2.	anything appropriated for a special purpose, esp. money.

3.	an act of a legislature authorizing money to be paid from the treasury for a specified use.

4.	the money thus authorized: a large appropriation for aid to libraries.

[Origin: 1325–75; ME (< MF) < LL appropriātiōn- (s. of appropriātiō). See appropriate, -ion

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ap·pro·pri·a·tion Audio Help (ə-prō'prē-ā'shən) Pronunciation Key
n.

The act of appropriating.
1. Something appropriated, especially public funds set aside for a specific purpose.
2. A legislative act authorizing the expenditure of a designated amount of public funds for a specific purpose.

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appropriation
noun
1.	money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose
2.	incorporation by joining or uniting [syn: annexation]
3.	a deliberate act of acquisition of something, often without the permission of the owner; "the necessary funds were obtained by the government's appropriation of the company's operating unit"; "a person's appropriation of property belonging to another is dishonest"

American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition - Cite This Source - Share This
appropriation

The grant of money by a legislature for some specific purpose. The authority to grant appropriations, popularly known as the power of the purse, gives legislatures a powerful check over executive branches and judicial branches, for no public money can be spent without legislative approval. Congress, for example, can approve or reject the annual budget requests of the executive branch for its agencies and programs, thereby influencing both domestic and foreign policy. (See also checks and balances and pork-barrel legislation.)

[Chapter:] American Politics

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Appropriation

Ap*pro`pri*a"tion\, n. [L. appropriatio: cf. F. appropriation.]

1. The act of setting apart or assigning to a particular use or person, or of taking to one's self, in exclusion of all others; application to a special use or purpose, as of a piece of ground for a park, or of money to carry out some object.

2. Anything, especially money, thus set apart.

The Commons watched carefully over the appropriation. --Macaulay.

3. (Law) (a) The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone. (b) The application of payment of money by a debtor to his creditor, to one of several debts which are due from the former to the latter. --Chitty.

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